Legal Opinion
Disabato v. South Carolina Ass'n of School Administrators
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Decided July 17, 2013No. Appellate Case No. 2011-198146; No. 27286PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JUSTICE HEARN:
This case requires us to reconcile two competing principles of our democratic tradition. First, embodied in the South Carolina Freedom of Information Act, Title 30, Chapter 4 of the South Carolina Code (the FOIA), is the principle of an open, transparent system of government, vital to maintaining an informed electorate and preventing the secret exercise of governmental power with its potential corruption. Juxtaposed against this principle are the rights of citizens to freely speak and associate embodied in the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. We must decide…
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